Capture, john mccain talks about the impact of the vietnam war on his life and country sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer American History tv is that the main Historical Society maine Historical Society collecting artifacts. One goes back to the 15th century. Welcome to the maine Historical Society, the third oldest Historical Society founded in 1822 and have been collecting at this location since 1907. For the early years, maine Historical Society moved around a bit, the public library, and city hall, and once the house was donated to the society, we built this library. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation where we added 13,000 feet to the back of the 1907 building. The temperature and humidity controls, climate controls. We also have an offsite storage case for larger collections since we have outgrown the footprint of our intown location. We collect specifically on maine , but our materials to reach back to the 15th century
Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was funded long before, and it was approved by congress. Things that occurred much earlier. We begin our feature on portlands history, talking about lobstering. In 2016, the Maine Lobster industry generated over 500 million. Next, we learn about its history and economic impact. Over here is my gps and radar. Here in the fog, it helps us figure out where we are. Traps with amy gps. I kind of do it by fe
States. We are founded in 1822. Collecting at this location since 1907 in portland. Historical city was in brunswick and moved to portland the 1870s, we moved from and c library to city hall once the society was donated, we library in 1907. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation and 13,000 square feet of archival Storage Space to the building. E that is what were in today, temperature and humidity control, climate controlled space, we store our collection. E have offsite Storage Space we use for larger collections and since weve outgrown our location. We connect on main, but have broader scope and reach back to the 15th century, terrible hat is not a amount of our collection, the bulk of our materials are from he 18th century and 19th century, from about the 17001900, although we have colonial and dating from the 1600s relating to canada and ime newsmakers. We are showing the treasures of society. Storical early in years we collected broadly on history, anything that had to d
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